Friedrich Bering

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Friedrich Bering (born February 2, 1878 in Fröndenberg / Ruhr , †  July 10, 1950 in Cologne ) was a German dermatologist , professor and rector of the University of Cologne .

Life

Bering was the son of the general practitioner of the same name Friedrich Bering (1817–1888) and his wife Sophie, née Wiemann. After passing the high school diploma at the Laurentianum Arnsberg high school , he studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen , Bonn , Berlin , Marburg and Kiel from 1897 until he passed the state examination in 1902 . During his studies, Bering joined the Germania Tübingen fraternity . He was awarded a Dr. med. did his doctorate and then did his military service in a sea battalion. From 1903 to 1905 he worked as an assistant doctor at the University Skin Clinic in Kiel and then until 1906 at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Municipal Hospital in Dortmund. In 1907 he qualified as a professor for skin and venereal diseases in Kiel. After a short employment at the surgical department of the "Bergmannsheil" hospital in Bochum, he worked from 1907 as a private lecturer and senior physician and from 1912 as an adjunct professor at the Kiel University Dermatology Clinic. From the late summer of 1914 he worked as chief physician at the municipal skin clinic in Essen, interrupted by the First World War .

In autumn 1931 he was appointed to the chair for skin and venereal diseases at the University of Cologne as Ferdinand Zinsser's successor . He also became the head of the university skin clinic there. Bering, who belonged to the DVP until 1931 , joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 after the handover of power to the National Socialists . From October 1933 he was dean of the medical faculty in Cologne for two years . He was a member of the university senate and the medical examination committee. From 1942 to 1945 he was rector of the University of Cologne. In this role he tried to prevent the university from being closed due to the war. At the same time, he was head of the dermatological department at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Cologne-Hohenlind. After heavy bomb hits on the main building of the university, he finally agreed in October 1944 to close the university and relocate teaching to Marburg. After his house and the Lindenburg municipal hospital were destroyed by bombs and his second son died in Italy, he suffered a nervous breakdown at the end of October 1944. He then lived temporarily in Schwerte . He was represented as rector by Josef Kroll , who succeeded him provisionally in this post after the war.

Grave of the Bering family in Melaten cemetery

After the end of the war, Bering was initially suspended from the university office and settled as a doctor in Westphalia. He was denazified as exonerated in October 1947 after a court hearing . He took over the chairmanship of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Dermatological Society, which he had held earlier. In the spring of 1948 he took up his chair as a substitute. He retired in 1949 . He was followed by Josef Vonkennel in 1950 .

Bering's research focus was on the diagnosis and treatment of syphilis , radiation therapy for skin diseases and occupational dermatoses. He was the author of numerous specialist publications.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 12 (G)).

Fonts

  • Longitudinal supramalleolar fractures of the fibula. Dissertation . University of Kiel, 1903.
  • The use of rays of light in dermatology with a special focus on lupus vulgaris. Habilitation thesis . University of Kiel, 1907.
  • About congenital syphilis: origin, appearance, etc. Treatment. Marhold, Halle / Saale 1912.
  • with Hans Meyer: Methods for measuring the effectiveness of violet and ultraviolet radiation sources. From the Institute for Radiation Treatment of the Königl. Dermatological Clinic in Kiel. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Sollux-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 1912. (In: Strahlentherapie , 1912 , issues 1 and 2)
  • Employability and venereal diseases. 5 reports d. Landesversicherungsanst. Rhine province / first from Bering u. a. With e. Introductory by Knepper. Edited by the chief d. State insurance institute Rhine Province, L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1925.
  • with Erna Zitzke: The occupational skin diseases: origin, evidence, appraisal. L. Voss, Leipzig 1935.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 21.
  2. ↑ a b Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1: Aachen - Braniss . Munich 2005, p. 569f.
  3. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: History of dermatology in Germany. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1999, pp. 119f.
personal data
SURNAME Bering, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Fröndenberg / Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1950
Place of death Cologne